Ultimate Pool Shootout North Carolina bracket
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Badpenguin
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$800 in airfare? Do you have family that works for the airlines? lol
If you go by matchroom's metric to declare the #1 player in the world is the player who has the most in matchroom tournament winnings, it is only fair to consider that the #1 most important tournament is the one you spend the most to go to.
I've done this before, and I'm cheap. Virgin Atlantic, middle of winter, SFO to LHR, reserved early, no checked luggage but with reserved seats. Here's February:
My flight to Sarajevo for the European Open last March was $770. That included 50 pounds of checked luggage.
He 'might' be interested IF it was in the US but he has ZERO desire to fly anywhere. He looks pretty happy in the Ultimate deal so i don't see him getting back into big table pool much unless its a gambling 1p match. Folks he's been playing pay-the-bills level pool since he was about 14 so cut the dude some slack. He's played in four MC's( record is 8-13) btw, does he have to play every year just because people on a forum demand it?
Not easily answered. In a typical year, I go to London twice, so in a Mosconi year I just make sure that one of those trips includes the Mosconi dates. My upcoming trip to London is for twelve days. My lodging cost is zero since I'll stay with my cousin. The only real cost of attending the Mosconi for me is buying the event tix, but I still spend less on the Mosconi trip than on my annual Derby City trip. When the Mosconi is in America, however, it costs me a little more. Air fare plus four days of lodging plus four event tickets probably costs about $1,500. Still less than I spend every year at Derby City and a little less than what I spend at the US Open 9ball.
Cost of attendance is not a logical measure of a tournament's importance. To attend the European Open in Bosnia this year would have cost me more than any of these, but that doesn't make it more important than the others.
... and that's OK, but the post shows a lack of appreciation for why we love the Mosconi. The Mosconi is not the most important event on the pool calendar, not even close. That said, it might well be the most fun and no event causes fans to bond more than the Mosconi. It's the reason the Mosconi sells itself. I've been to eleven of them, and Team USA won just two of them, but those losses have never put a damper on the event for me.
boogieman
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that ping.
I don't think in any of our games a spot either way of over 3 was involved. Most were even up or a spot of 1 or 2 games either way. I didn't hear anyone complain about the spots the entire week. We were there playing in the Grand Nationals, not complaining from the peanut gallery.
Handicapping is nothing new and I feel it would be much harder to manipulate in this format.We played a team where one guy had what I feel may have been a questionably low rating, but he was a young kid who was playing his heart out that had only played any type of pool for 2 years. This was his first UPUSA season. The way he plays his rating will catch up soon. Not a case of sandbagging, just a case of the rating not being super robust yet and getting past the starter rating. When he beat our guy they shook hands afterwards and said good game. No one complained.
I know with pool players this is hard to believe but I also didn't see people blaming luck or conditions. A few were having a tough time adjusting to new slick cloth but I overheard many people talking about how to adjust, even with rival teams when not in direct competition.
From what I saw UPUSA has more of an attitude of help everyone excel and push the sport instead of the usual "crabs in a bucket" mentality you see in pool. It's building a good culture and trying to put focus on the youth which can only help the sport.